Annual EFN Convening.
“"The EFN conference is just pure magic. It's a time you can step away from your desk and co-create a dream of a better future. What could be better than that?"
Tiana Austel, eBay Foundation
2025 EFN Convening
We're excited to bring the Entrepreneurship Funders Network and entrepreneurship funders together for the 2025 EFN Convening in Chicago! Tell your other entrepreneurship funding friends, invite your teams, register for the event, make your travel arrangements, book your hotel, and please join us for a dynamic experience that explores what can be achieved for entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs, and the communities they serve. We accomplish more together than is possible alone. Let's come together in person in Chicago.
As agenda details are finalized, they will be posted here and on our Eventbrite registration page.
Please note that at this time, these are private links that are intended for current members or prospective members of EFN. Please bookmark both pages, and go back to them when you want to know more.
2025 EFN Convening Registration Rate: $950
Thank you to The Coleman Foundation, eBay Foundation, and Fund for Equitable Business Growth for sponsoring the 2025 EFN Convening! There is still time for you to become an official sponsor, so please consider doing so today!
Book your Stay
Book your room today. This special offer of an EFN rate will end on Tuesday, October 7.
To make the most out of your convening experience as an EFN member or a funder, please book from Sunday, October 26 through Wednesday, October 29 or Thursday, October 30. Programming will wrap up on Wednesday, October 29 at 3 pm.
Hotel Chicago Downtown, Autograph Collection
333 North Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60654
2025 EFN Convening Sponsorship
This unique gathering creates brave space for funders to connect with each other, broadly share ideas, explore questions and curiosities particular to their role as funders, and co-create new initiatives. In addition to connecting with each other, funders are able to connect with other ecosystem partners to build a fuller picture and deeper understanding of how equitable entrepreneurial ecosystems are functioning and where there might be opportunity for innovative improvements. Sponsorship of the 2025 EFN Convening is designed to ensure that connection, learning, and co-creation remain the primary focus.
EFN CONVENING SPONSORSHIP LEVELS
Sponsorship Level Benefit(s)
$2,500 1 event registration
$5,000 2 event registrations
$10,000 4 event registrations
$20,000 8 event registrations
All sponsors will be recognized in pre- and post-event emails, the event program, and the event report. EFN welcomes conversation about sponsoring specific event components, including but not limited to, receptions, meals, tracks, transportation, or more. Sponsors who do not plan to use all of their available registrations are encouraged to inform EFN and donate those registrations to covering the cost of invited ecosystem partners or guests.
Please visit our FundRazr site for more information. For questions about event sponsorship, please contact Ify Aduba at ifeoma@eshipfundersnetwork.org.
2024 EFN Convening
Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2024 EFN Convening!
The 2024 EFN Convening was designed with thoughtful intention and recognized as an opportunity to test and build on insights we’ve garnered from our network members.
Honoring an expressed desire to move EFN into an network for impact that connects, learns, and acts together; each segment of the event was carefully crafted to further these aspirations.
Download the full report to read more about EFN’s approach to convening design. Plus, you can catch a glimpse of some of the new programs EFN is piloting for network members, inspired by insights from the convening.